Tapa Airfield (ICAO: EETA) is an unused air base in Estonia located 3 km (1.9 mi) southwest of Tapa. During the Cold War it was home to the 656th Fighter Aviation Regiment PVO (IAP PVO).[3] For most of the time the regiment was part of the 14th Air Defence Division of the 6th Air Defence Army.
Tapa's interceptor regiment initially operated the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (ASCC: Fresco) then the Sukhoi Su-9 (ASCC: Fishpot) in the 1960s and 1970s.[4] This aircraft was replaced in 1978 with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23M (ASCC: Flogger-B).[4]
In 1987, interceptor aircraft were dispatched from Tapa to intercept Mathias Rust's Cessna 172 in a famous Cold War incident.[5] To prevent a recurrence, the 384th Independent Helicopter Squadron (384 OVE) was deployed here with the Mil Mi-24P (ASCC: Hind-F) between 1989 and 1992.[6]
^ abPHASEOUT OF FISHPOT IN APVO STRANYY AIRFIELDS USSR, February 1981, CREST: CIA-RDP81T00380R000100980001-5, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.
^LeCompte, Tom (July 2005). "The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust, Air & Space Magazine". Archived from the original on 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
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Estonian Writers in 1872. Tartu railway station was opened in 1876 when Tapa–Tartu route was built. The station building was opened in 1877. In the history...
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